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Summer Cooking | Molly O'Neill, Elizabeth David
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Following the privations of World War II, English and American readers were ready for the riches of continental cuisine, and Elizabeth David was happy to oblige. "Summer Cooking, " first published in 1955, contains, in David's words, "dishes which bring some savour of the garden, the fields, the sea, into the kitchen and the dining room."
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Jess_Read_This
Summer Cooking | Molly O'Neill, Elizabeth David
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“After all, it is summer. You are on holiday. You are in the company of your own choosing. The air is clean. You can smell wild fennel and thyme, dry resinous pine needles, the sea. For my part, I ask no greater luxury. Indeed I can think of none”

O‘Neill says “I don‘t return to Elizabeth David to remember how to cook, I read her to remember how I wanted to live and why I learned to cook in the first place.” I completely agree.

Tamra Must read this too! 😍 1y
Jess_Read_This @Tamra It‘s very relaxing! Except it‘s also making me feel like snacking 😂 I wasn‘t hungry when I picked it up, but now I could eat. 1y
LeahBergen I love Elizabeth David! 1y
Jess_Read_This @LeahBergen She‘s just such a relaxing read for me! 1y
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Kristin_Reads
Summer Cooking | Molly O'Neill, Elizabeth David
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📖 8-6-22 || This vintage 1955 English cookbook is perfect! It includes chapters on holidays and picnics and is “chockablock with both invaluable instructions and tart rejoinders to the pallid and the overblown”! The writing is witty (i.e. “you need a really first-rate quality spring chicken…not a petit poussin; I do not understand why these flabby, insipid little birds are considered such a luxury”) 😄
This was my #BookSpin pick!

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! Everyone needs a sassy cookbook 😂 2y
Kristin_Reads @TheAromaofBooks Absolutely 🤣 2y
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Summer Cooking | Molly O'Neill, Elizabeth David
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I can‘t wait to dive in to my #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin picks for August!